Exploring the National Defense Authorization Act - Episode 4


It is a beautiful Monday morning and I couldn't be more excited to dive back into the National Defense Authorization Act. Thinking back to yesterday's perusal I recall a slight disparity between the text on Congress.gov and the President's Whitehouse.gov website in regard to section 341. Unfortunately, the President's website seems to be incorrect as they refer to this section, concerning "efforts to mitigate contested logistics challenges through the reduction of operational energy demand" as Section 351, which on the Congress website refers to "Treatment of notice of presumed risk issued by Military Aviation and Installation Assurance Clearinghouse for review of mission obstructions." C'mon, man.

I bring this up because today I found an apparent typo on the Congress website in Section 376 where the word "lazing" is used. I looked up lazing and it doesn't seem to be a word. Now, either we're talking about lasers or, most likely, this word is supposed to be "hazing". Maybe there's a reason to not use hazing. Makes a person wonder.

In any case, I was happy to see, in today's skim, all the consideration given Military Working Dogs. It seems we're going to train them more on detecting explosives and now, with covid among us, they're going to help detect disease. Apparently, these fine creatures can smell the sickness.

Besides a bit on the establishment of a Center for Excellence relating to radar-stuff, most everything else was about the National Guard - their "end strength" and how to direct them. Directing them was likely brought into question because of an interesting situation where Willis Johnson, a rich guy from Tennessee, paid South Dakota $1 million dollars, a donation accepted by Gov. Kristi Noem, to send South Dakota's National Guard troops to Texas and guard the wall. What an absurd triangulation.


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